Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sat, 7 Apr 2001 23:17:29 -0500 | From | David Fries <> | Subject | Re: goodbye |
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On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 02:32:28AM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 06:14:33PM -0700, Michael Peddemors wrote: > Well, comparing how much spam goes thru linux-mm vs. linux-kernel, > I would say our methods are fairly effective. > > The incentive behind the DUL is to force users not to post > straight out to the world, but to use their ISP's servers > for outbound email --- normal M$ users do that, after all. > Only spammers - and UNIX powerusers - want to post directly > to the world from dialups. And UNIX powerusers should know > better, and be able to use ISP relay service anyway.
I guess you will have to explain to me why that is supposed to be a good thing to force people to go though their ISP. I've had personal experience where I returned to my University which forces everyone to go though their mail spool and it took me a week or two before I realized that any e-mail I sent off campus wasn't getting there and I was using their mail services. Turns out the university changed the host names for our ip's and my hostname wasn't changed to reflect that (stupid name I might add and not for human readability, the previous ones were understandable.)
To this day I don't know what happened to those e-mails, I do know I didn't get them and the desired people didn't get them.
There is a lot of comfort looking at /var/log/mail.log and seeing mail accepted by the computer servicing the other person's account. Now all I have is, accepted by university, hope it gets there...
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